You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. -- Harold Geneen Ceo

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.  -- Bruce Henderson

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. -- Victor Kiam

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- William Wrigley Jr.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. -- Ludwig Erhard

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible. -- Cesar Ritz

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. -- Richard Marcinko

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. -- P. D. Armour

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be -- Gerald Barzan

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. -- Benjamin Franklin

Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back. -- L.L. Bean

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. -- Geoffrey Beene

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. -- Jim Cathcart

Business is more exciting than any game. -- Lord Beaverbrook

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. -- Ren Mulford Jr.

You can't run a business without taking risks. -- Millard Drexler

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. -- Peter F. Drucker

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job. -- Paul H. Dunn

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out. -- Meshulam Riklis

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. -- Henry Ford

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. -- Robert Galvin

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. -- Michael E. Gerber

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. -- Harold Hook

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again. -- Nikita Khrushchev

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you. -- William Knudsen

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer. -- Lee Iacocca

Business today consists in persuading crowds. -- Gerald Stanley Lee

I buy when other people are selling. -- J. Paul Getty

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. -- Randall Jacobs

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. -- Royal Little

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. -- Henry Luce

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. -- Isaac Mophatlane

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. -- Aristotle Onassis

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. -- Charles Revson

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. -- Thomas J. Watson 

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful. -- General Robert E. Woods